This is a refreshing and welcome addition to the many books written on education. Although it is addressed principally to Nursery School teachers (and parents of young children), there is much in it that is applicable to mentally handicapped children and all who work in Occupation Centres, or "School Departments" or as Home teachers, would do as well to consider the contents. Miss Gardner's sim...

In order to develop a curriculum especially for educable mentally retarded students at the high school level, this federally funded 1-year research project aimed to establish unique parameters involved in vocational adjustment for these students and to develop a tentative curriculum with this information. A literature review was conducted, and a research team interviewed supervisors, vocational...

These are three publications from the U.S.A. which reflect the ever-increasing prac" interest and concern in America about the well-being of the mentally handicapped. ^

PURPOSE To explore the needs for basic community-based rehabilitation services for disabled persons in Xuanwu District, Beijing, China, and to identify factors which influence disabled persons to accept rehabilitation services. METHOD One hundred and eight disabled persons were selected by systematic sampling and simple random sampling to assess their needs for community-based rehabilitation ...

TlHE President of the United States, 7John F. Kennedy, has called upon the American people to make "a "ontal attack on the problems of Rental retardation". In October last "e announced the appointment of a Panel of 27 distinguished persons and asked them to assume leadership in developing plans for a co-ordinated National approach to the problems of research, professional training and services ...

This paper deals with an aspect of the law relating to the use of a mentally handicapped victim as a prosecution witness in a criminal trial. Here the particular question was of the victim's competence to act as a witness, and the likely reliability, or otherwise of her evidence. The results of psychological testing were found to provide guidelines by which the court could distinguish between a...

1920, to visit and befriend all mentally handicapped people living at home and to help and advise parents about home care, especially the early training of young children. It assisted the local authority in administering the services provided under the Mental Deficiency Act. The newly-formed Association was faced with the tremendous task of compiling a register of mentally sub-normal persons in...

toys and play for the handicapped child What to say and what to do when mostly your friends love reading? Are you the one that don't have such hobby? So, it's important for you to start having that hobby. You know, reading is not the force. We're sure that reading will lead you to join in better concept of life. Reading will be a positive activity to do every time. And do you know our friends b...

Children Belong in Homes In the Clinical Report “Out-of-Home Placement for Children and Adolescents With Disabilities,” Friedman and colleagues review options for placing children with disabilities in congregate care settings. However, the report omits discussion of the best interests of the child in selecting out-of-home options and fails to review and prioritize noninstitutional models of car...